The Amazing history of word meanings

Frank Miele explains what liberal means and used to mean.

What the world needs now is more real liberals

Liberals — God bless them!

No, seriously. Don’t let my conservative credentials sway you into thinking I am being facetious. I am not.

But consider which liberals I am praising, and then stop and ask yourself if the people who use that title today are fit for the honor.

Taking the definition from a good “liberal” source — Wikipedia — to make sure it is not some accident of warped conservative thinking, let’s consider the following:

“Liberals in the 19th century wanted to develop a world free from government intervention, or at least free from too much government intervention. They championed the ideal of negative liberty, which constitutes the absence of coercion and the absence of external constraints. They believed governments were cumbersome burdens and they wanted governments to stay out of the lives of individuals.”

Like I said before, God bless liberals. I just wish we could find one worthy of the name today.

It's an interesting article. Read the rest. 

Liberal Guilt

American Thinker has an article out today on liberal guilt.  I have no doubt what is said in that article is true.  Here is a sample:

The Grand Illusions of America's Liberals

By Edward Bernard Glick

America's liberals are consumed with guilt. If not soon purged from our society, their guilt will kill us all.

Bent on rewriting history, or else entirely ignorant of it, they deny that the United States has brought more freedom and well-being to more people most of the time than any other nation in history. They also accuse our country of racism and imperialism.

Point by point Glick describes the liberal thinking guilt and the truth of the history of the United States history of non-imperalism. Read it all here.

Links for Monday

Unintended consequences this would be funny if it didn't cause us so much trouble and expense in the first place. It is just pressure to take us back to horse and buggy days, and we don't want that kind of pollution. In the enviornmentalist opinion the CO2 we exhale is a bad thing.

Those enhanced interrogation techniques have done more than were reported by the Washington Post, today they had to backtrack with a new article. Via Power Line

Newsbusters has an article on Walter Cronkite you may want to read. If you want more Media Research Center has it.

The birth Certificate issue reared it's head. It is a short video via Gateway Pundit.
I think someone was surprised! Mike Castle is a representative from Delaware, "Gee, I wonder what his party is?" Anyone want to guess?

From Instapundit some links:
Obama Care and the Tea Party Effect by Donald Douglas.
Best Ham Sandwich Evah, just heard Rush reading about this one, too. Ham + Pork!
Finally the New York Times is going after Murtha! follow the money.
A roundup of videos of health care protests.

There is so much to keep up with and it's beginning to look like we may have a chance to turn it around. We just have to get out there and email, call and show up on the doorstep, in some cases, our elected officials.

Walter Cronkite - hero of the left

The death of Walter Cronkite is a wake up call as to how long the liberal press has been acting against our best interests. He decreed the Vietnam War to be a quagmire and then it was. Facts did not matter. Millions died in Cambodia after we withdrew from the area. Vietnamese who helped us were imprisoned or killed. Our military who made it home were not welcomed as heroes but were shamed. It is a black mark on our honor the way they were treated. Do I sound bitter? I am. I have a son in law who is a PTSD victim of that war. He was so thrilled to see how the Desert Storm vets were welcomed back. Even though many were not in favor of the continuation of the Iraq war at least the military have been treated honorably. Let's keep it that way.